Ed Murphy

Edward P. Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Music Publishers' Association, Inc. (NMPA). NTMPA is a trade association representing more than 800 American music publishers. The Association's mandate is to protect and advance the interests of music publishers and their songwriter partners in matters relating to the domestic and global protection of music copyrights.

NMPA's licensing subsidiary, HFA, represents more than 25,000 music publishers and licenses a large percentage of the uses of music in the United States on records, tapes and CDs. HFA also licenses music on a worldwide basis on behalf of its publisher principals for use in films, commercials, television programs and all other types of audiovisual media.

Mr. Murphy joined NMPA as Executive Vice President in September 1983, was elected President of HFA in 1984, and President and CEO of NMPA and HFA in 1985. Prior to assuming his duties at NMPA/HFA he served as President of G. Schirmer, Inc., the pre-eminent American music publishing house with which he had been associated for most of his working life. In 2000 leadership of the Association and Agency was split, and Murphy remained as President & CEO of NMPA.

At present, Mr. Murphy serves on the Advisory Board of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (11PA), the Board of Directors of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, is an advisory member of Bureau International des Societies Gerant les Droits D'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mechanique (B1EM) and is also a member of
the BIEM Management Committee, an associate member of Confederation Internationale des Societes D'auteurs et Compositeure (CISAC), a member of the International Copyright Panel of the U.S. Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property, and a Board member of the Latin American Congress of Music Publishers (FLADEM).

Under the auspices of NMPA Mr. Murphy founded the International Copyright Coalition (ICC), an independent task force formed to achieve crucial copyright protection goals by increasing national legislative strength through international support and cooperation. In addition, he is regularly called upon by the U.S. Copyright Office and other governmental offices to provide guidance on music industry and copyright issues.

Mr. Murphy is a member of the board of the National Music Council, as well as the Council's Secretary, a member of the Advisory Board to the New York University Masters Program in Music, Business and Technology, a member of the ASCAP sponsored Dreifus Scholarship Foundation and is Associate Director of the Salvatore T. Chiantia Memorial Lung Cancer Research Fund, a T.J. Martell Foundation. He is a past member of the ASCAP Board of Directors, on which he served as Assistant Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee, and formerly served as an officer of the Music Industry Council, the Music Publishers' Association and as Vice-President of the International Federation of Popular Music Publishers (IFPMP).